Artificial Intelligence Architect Contract Job Trends in the City of London

AI Architect
Central London > City of London

The median AI Architect daily rate in the City of London is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 - 133
Rank change year-on-year - - +52
Contract jobs requiring an Artificial Intelligence Architect 13 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.70% - 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% - 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 1
10th Percentile £475 - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - £800
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.34%
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £675 - £800
% change year-on-year - - +10.34%

All Contract IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,753 1,723 2,295
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 92.88% 94.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,210 1,045 1,654
10th Percentile £350 £354 £340
25th Percentile £431 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +2.22% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 22
10th Percentile £19.98 £18.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.37 £22.00 £19.18
Median hourly rate £37.25 £32.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.62% +35.42% -5.88%
75th Percentile £43.86 £76.13 £40.00
90th Percentile £52.96 £112.00 £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £26.91
% change year-on-year -25.40% +30.09% +6.55%

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Artificial Intelligence Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Artificial Intelligence Architect job vacancy trend in the City of London

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Architect job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Artificial Intelligence Architect job vacancies in the City of London

Artificial Intelligence Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artificial Intelligence Architect in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Artificial Intelligence Architect in the City of London

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 2 February 2026, Artificial Intelligence Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Artificial Intelligence Architect in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) AI
2 11 (84.62%) Generative AI
2 11 (84.62%) LLM
3 10 (76.92%) Azure
4 6 (46.15%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 5 (38.46%) AWS
5 5 (38.46%) Data Engineering
5 5 (38.46%) GCP
5 5 (38.46%) Machine Learning
5 5 (38.46%) Technical Architecture
6 4 (30.77%) AIOps
6 4 (30.77%) Architectural Design
6 4 (30.77%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (30.77%) Logistics
6 4 (30.77%) Middleware
6 4 (30.77%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (30.77%) Use Case
7 3 (23.08%) Architecture Governance
7 3 (23.08%) Databricks
7 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
8 2 (15.38%) Attestation
8 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
8 2 (15.38%) Cyber Resilience
8 2 (15.38%) Data Security
8 2 (15.38%) EU AI Act
8 2 (15.38%) IT Strategy
8 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
8 2 (15.38%) MLOps
8 2 (15.38%) OpenAI
8 2 (15.38%) Python

Artificial Intelligence Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Cognitive Search
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) MLflow
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) Hugging Face
2 1 (7.69%) PySpark
2 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
2 1 (7.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Product Ownership
2 4 (30.77%) Cloud Native
3 2 (15.38%) Security Posture
3 2 (15.38%) Taxonomies
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) AI
2 11 (84.62%) Generative AI
2 11 (84.62%) LLM
3 6 (46.15%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 5 (38.46%) Data Engineering
4 5 (38.46%) Machine Learning
4 5 (38.46%) Technical Architecture
5 4 (30.77%) AIOps
5 4 (30.77%) Architectural Design
5 4 (30.77%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (30.77%) Logistics
5 4 (30.77%) Use Case
6 3 (23.08%) Architecture Governance
6 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
7 2 (15.38%) Attestation
7 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
7 2 (15.38%) Data Security
7 2 (15.38%) MLOps
7 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
7 2 (15.38%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) EU AI Act
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Databricks
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) OpenAI
3 1 (7.69%) Google